Denier - Béla II

Béla II's reign began under extraordinary circumstances: blinded and castrated as a child on the orders of King Stephen II, he survived through the protection of the Croatian nobility and the church, eventually ascending to the throne in 1131 despite his disabilities. His administration relied heavily on his wife Helena of Raška, who wielded significant political influence — most notoriously at the Diet of Arad, where dozens of nobles suspected of complicity in Béla's mutilation were massacred in a single session. The denier series attributed to his reign shows considerable die variation, reflected in the multiple catalog references this type carries across Huszár and the CNH corpus.